Mexico fines Telmex again for wrongful satellite TV deal with Dish México

Mexico fines Telmex again for wrongful satellite TV deal with Dish México

Mexico’s telecoms regulator has fined Carlos Slim’s Telmex a second time for unauthorised contracts with satellite TV company Dish.

The Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) says that Telmex had a contract with Dish México between November 2008, when the satellite service started, and August 2014. Telmex announced the deal to the Mexican Stock Exchange.

The fine is small – 5.38 million pesos or $287,000 – but it is the second that the IFT has ordered the company to pay. In early 2015 it charged Dish México and Telmex with failing to divulge, in full, a series of agreements between the two companies.

Dish was fined 43 million pesos in 2015 and Telmex 14.4 million – nearly three times the latest fine. Dish México is owned by MVS Comunicaciones and US company EchoStar.

IFT said the Dish México-Telmex deal contravened the exclusive rights given to another satellite company, Comercializadora de Frecuencias Satelitales.



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